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The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout released 3.19 million barrels of oil in the Gulf of Mexico over nearly three months. It exposed organisms to oil at various stages of processing, and the duration and size of the spill had the potential to harm many…

The Workforce Innovation Fund (WIF), funded by the U.S. Department of Labor, was an initiative to develop and test new services and strategies in the public workforce system. WIF required that the 43 grantees each demonstrate how their proposed…

West Africa is one of the world’s poorest regions. Business and trade there face chronic obstacles such as spotty product quality, inaccessible loans, bureaucratic blockages, and donor dependency. The region’s leading midsized firms—those with the…

In the DRC, Abt trains community health workers to reach remote families with health messaging and medical referrals, connecting children with treatment before diseases become severe.

HomeStart is a Boston-based nonprofit organization with a goal of eliminating homelessness due to eviction for non-payment, notably for families with subsidies and the working poor in Massachusetts. Eviction is costly not only for tenants but for…

The USAID Eliminating TB in Central Asia activity builds local capacity to improve the detection and treatment of drug-resistant TB and reduce TB stigma.

Abt’s Cara Jackson set off a Tweet storm that she turned into a two-part blog series for Education Week on the role of teacher’s salaries in student outcomes.

Abt’s evaluation of the HPOG 1.0 Program after six years shows that gains in educational progress and healthcare jobs did not lead to earnings gains.